Thursday, April 30, 2015

Below are some links to some online education sites. Only one is totally free but most have discounts & compared to traditional college & university costs they are cheap!

https://www.udemy.comSign up for their newsletter & get a 50% coupon for one course!http://www.shawacademy.com/Not cheap but Living Social & Groupon feature discount vouchers that can make these courses very inexpensive.http://skillcrush.com/Not cheap but not expensive for what you get. As you learn they coach you & give you leads so you can make money from your budding skills as you learn! All courses are IT related.https://www.mooc-list.com/List of free Massive Online Only Courses. https://www.khanacademy.org/Free courses! These are aimed at secondary schoolers but many of us (including moi!) need to refresh our basics or even learn/update a few new things. And for free, why not?http://www.openculture.com/Links to free e-books, free textbooks, free online courses & more!https://teamtreehouse.com/Treehouse is an online educational venue for coding, design and related business courses. You get two weeks free to try them out. The fees are quite reasonable: $25.00 a month for the regular plan or $49.00 for the Pro Plan. Most people would need only the regular plan, especially when they first sign on.

Try some of these sites:Free Kindles Today(Free Kindle books that are oriented towards online business and self-help)Buck Books(e-books for a buck. Usually has at least one freebie per day.)Book Bub (free and cheap e-books. Never over $2.99)Free Computer/Tech BooksOpen Culture(Free E-books, e-textbooks, movies and more)Forgotten Books(1 free book download per day. You can download as many as you want with a paid subscription. Read for free online.) Google Books(some free, some not)Project GutenbergAmazon (search for free Kindles in the Kindle shop)OverDrive (Borrow e-books, etc. from your public library if you have a library card.)